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2025: Volume 9: Issue 2
■ Kristina Urbanc
We are now in the new issue of ANSE Journal 9-2, dedicated to the Summer University held from August 18th to the 22nd in Munich. In line with the good tradition of the ANSE Journal, in this issue we have also tried to bring the richness and diversity of supervision practice and science closer to our readers in the form of articles, reflections and vignettes and to convey at least some of the dynamics and content that we had the opportunity to experience in Munich this August.
This issue of ANSE Journal can truly be called a summer edition, even though you will be reading it in the winter months. By that I mean that it is, above all, diverse, colourful, light but also deep, calming but also stimulating, serious but also playful, but above all, it is rich in metaphors and symbolism, encompassing mythology, flora and fauna, and, as the title of the Summer university itself says, an Ocean of Possibilities. Let us recall that, among many other meanings, the ocean also denotes the place where life on Earth probably began, so I invite you to dive into its depths and explore some of its countless possibilities.
Sveindis Anna Jóhannnsdóttir (Iceland) introduces us to this truly diverse and rich issue with a column entitled ‘An Ocean of Possibility – Munich 2025, ANSE Summer University – Everyone matters’, in which she gives her review and impressions of the invited lectures by Katrina Gunther, Vanessa Mae, Philipp Staab and Zeynep Demir. The author of the column draws readers’ attention to how much difference words, content and the way something is said can make. Using a well-known literary character – the girl Polyana – she reminds us of the importance of solidarity and the ability to find something to be glad about in every situation, no matter how bleak it may be.
In the Did you know section, Gerian Dijkhuizen informs us about the details of the past Summer University in order to bring readers closer to at least some of the lively and hospitable atmosphere in which the meeting took place.
In this issue, Sveindís Anna Jóhannsdóttir has another contribution, an article entitled The Inner Ocean: A Path to Deeper Self-Awareness and Well-Being. Using yet another metaphor, “The Inner Ocean”, as a reflective framework in professional supervision, the author deals with resilience and well-being among professionals, discussing how supervision acts as a preventive measure against burnout but also as a way to empowerment, ethical reflection and sustainable practice.
Swiss author Amina Abdulkadir describes her workshop: If You Don’t Like Swimming, Don’t Go Swimming – And Happily Stay On the Shore reflecting about choices of using (or not using) virtual presence in counselling clients, using the „Penguin Metaphor“ which describes a shore as a co-presence.
Remaining at the level of stories, metaphors and myths, Josephine Schmitt (Germany) refers to the story of Medusa from Greek mythology, addressing the topic of sexual harassment in the workplace and discussing how professionals and supervisors cannot effectively confront this external culture without first recognising its internalised manifestations within themselves. In her article Rape Culture in Organisations – and Within Ourselves: Addressing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace and Its Impact on Our Work, Josephine Schmitt discusses the existence of victim-blaming strategies and the normalisation of patriarchal violence in professional environments, and the need for critical engagement with the underlying ‘rape culture’ within organisations.
German author Lisa Aigner, in her article The Challenge of Complex and Fundamental Decisions in Supervision – Consent Facilitation as a Helpful Method, introduces us to the advantages of the consent facilitation method, which offers supervisors an effective tool for constructively guiding complex and fundamental decision processes. It deals with the method that integrates well-reasoned objections as resources for improving solutions rather than overruling minorities and represents a key competence for making teams and organisations more resilient and capable of action.
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